494 mriviledges of the Children of God. God, but they are ufurpers. But there night be a miflake in that ; for though it's tie, all our right is loft, that mutt be granted ; Buyer if God by a free donation (hail give them right, (hall give the creature againe to wicked men , give the Earth to the children of men, we cannot fay that they are ufur- pers, if they have it by a free gift from God, in the time of his bounty and patience towards the wicked But yet flit( they have not that right that the children of God have , their right is meerely by donation, but the right that the child of Cod hath, it is partly by purchafe, and partly by inheritance; they have a challenging right, that they can in a bold and holy way, even challenge from God all good things from all creatures that they have need of, as their owne. A wicked man may have many comfortable things in the world for his prefent fubii- flance, and I dare not fay that he is a ufurper if he get them lawfully ; for God in his bounty and patience doth give wick- ed men thefe things ; and we fay, what freer then gift ? I but there's no wicked men in the world that can challenge thefe, and fay, Lord thefe are mine owne, it's mire. inheritance, it's my purchafe ; this is the priviledge of the children of God. If a malefactor by ',is offence bath forfeited his eflate, bath forfeited all the right that he hath to the good things in a King- dom : But yet if thole that have fupream power condemne him, (hall out of their bounty grant unto him fome: provifion for his Supper the night before he is to be executed,you cannot faythathe doth ufurpe it, he bath a right to it, that is, it's gi- ven him, though lie bath forfeited all : And truly this is the right that wicked men have : Is there not a great deale of dif- ference now between the right that a child hath at his Fathers Table, and the right that a malefahor bath the night before he goes to theGallowes ? This now is the difference between the right of the one and the other, even before the Lord : Therefore when you look upon your eflates, and fee your hou- fes furnifhed with good furniture, and look upon your Tables and fee them furni(hed with full difhes; Confider what right . you have o all thefe in reference unto God ; whether it be meerely the right of donation ;, As a malefactor may have to: pre..
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